Корнелия Функе4.4 Когда-то драконы жили повсюду. Теперь они скрываются в укромных пещерах. Когда-то они были самыми сильными и гордыми существами на свете. Теперь появились те, кто сильнее их…
Драконьи легенды рассказывают о Подоле Неба - тайном убежище среди самых высоких гор на земле… И Лунг, молодой и сильный дракон, отправляется на его поиски. Трудная задача, даже для дракона.
К счастью, с Лунгом полетит друг - девочка-кобольд по имени Серношерстка. А еще один друг присоединится к ним в пути, несмотря на все неудовольствие Серношерстки, которая недолюбливает людей, даже маленьких…
Джонатан Страуд4.4 Эта история произошла в Лондоне, в начале третьего тысячелетия. Вот только это вовсе не тот Лондон, который мы знаем. Хотя бы потому, что волшебники там — весьма обыденное явление. Равно как и демоны — джинны, бесы, африты и многие другие.
Волшебники призывают демонов и при помощи заклинаний принуждают их выполнять свои приказы. Демонам это, разумеется, совсем не нравится. Так что, когда юный ученик волшебника вызвал джинна по имени Бартимеус, джинн хотел только одного: побыстрее выполнить прихоть хозяина — выкрасть могущественный Амулет Самарканда у другого волшебника — и забыть о настырном мальчишке. Однако все оказалось далеко не так просто...
Патриция Рейлли Гифф0.0 Amazon.com416 Smith Street, Brooklyn, America: this is the ultimate goal for Nory Ryan as she flees her famine-ridden home in mid-1800s Ireland. One by one, her family has departed for a new life in America; Nory is the last to go. Keeping her
Ричард Пек4.0 The year is 1861. Civil war is imminent and Tilly Pruitt's brother, Noah, is eager to go and fight on the side of the North. With her father long gone, Tilly, her sister, and their mother struggle to make ends meet and hold the dwindling Pruitt family together. Then one night a mysterious girl arrives on a steamboat bound for St. Louis. Delphine is unlike anyone the small river town has even seen. Mrs. Pruitt agrees to take Delphine and her dark, silent traveling companion in as boarders. No one in town knows what to make of the two strangers, and so the rumors fly. Is Delphine's companion a slave? Could they be spies for the South? Are the Pruitts traitors? A masterful tale of mystery and war, and a breathtaking portrait of the lifelong impact one person can have on another.
А. ЛаФайе0.0 After Nathaniel's leg is crushed in an accident, his father brings home an orphan boy, John Worth, to help work the fields. Worth has come to Nebraska from New York City on the Orphan Train, which brings homeless children west to find new lives.
Nathaniel feels increasingly jealous of the boy who has taken over not only his work but the attention of his father, who has barely spoken to him since his injury. In school for the first time he is far behind even his youngest classmates, and he feels as useless there as he does at home.
Meanwhile, Worth is still grieving for his family and his old life. As the farm chores prevent him from going to school, he also resents losing his dream of an education and a good job. And for all the work he does, he knows he will never inherit the farm that he's helping to save.
But a battle between ranchers and farmers -- and a book of Greek mythology that Nathaniel reads aloud each evening -- forges a connection between the two boys, who begin to discover that maybe there is enough room on the farm, and in the family, for both of them.
A. LaFaye's dynamic portrayal of two boys longing for something they no longer have -- and finding the resources to face the future -- offers a fresh perspective on the thousands of children who moved west via the Orphan Trains in the late nineteenth century.
